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Stay at home and avoid:
- substandard overpriced fixed menu meals
- overpriced sparkling wine masquerading as champagne.
- overcrowded restaurants
- wandering minstrels
- gypseys selling roses
- hype
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yep!
AND… it’s far romantic at home anyhow!
far more romantic.
Duh!
Happy 42nd Anniversary of the introduction of decimal currency. Ed!!
Quite.
Grocer, it will be with parma ham, figs some BBQued sardines and an Eton Mess but alas no wine ;-(
PG, you do. i didn’t dare leave you a coment but I think my rusty carbon steel kitchen knife (somebody left it in the washing up) may be far more scarey than your surgical instruments. I have no surgical training but am a keen amateur vet.
Thankyou, your whoreness.
Bunch of flowers, bottle of bubbles and fish and chips at home out of the paper. Call me romantic! I call it practical.:
Well said though I have to admit Michael & I decided a stroll down Sydney rd with Chloe in the pram & a lovely dinner in the beer garden at the retreat where she could run around happily with no champagne, roses or Valentines menus in sight made for a great & night out for us
Steve, nice one all though I cocked-up my meal forgetting that Jackie doesn’t like boney sardines. Boy, a glass of wine would have been nice with the ham and figs. 14 days to go!
Ange, sounds great. It’s where it comes form rather than having to have hearts on it that counts.
Never underestimate the subtle power of a six pack & the drive-through.
I dont agree- had a fantastic dinner at Attica, very romantic and pol roger champagne.
Perhaps you just need to choose the right place!
Gobbler, classy. But why a six pack? Surely a slab if you’ve made the effort to drive there.
Fiona, of course Attica is different. I’d none of the above would have been ticked which makes us in agreement in this isolated case.
I think that Valentine’s Day took off because so many men in the west are undemonstrative and forget that they need to remind their partner on a regular basis that they appreciate what women bring to their lives.
Psychologically it’s clever. It only takes one day a year to satisfy most women, where the lady of your life can be relieved of the domestic humdrum and receive some affection in order to be made to feel special and loved. With dogs and cats you need to remind them on a daily basis or they run away.
We went to see Lust Caution - artful, a little raunchy and suspenseful - and wandered hand in hand through Melbourne’s laneways until we settled on supper at Punch Lane. Perfect.
For us, Singapore chilli crab prepared at home. Decadent, hands-on, deliciously messy and more than a touch primal…with not a candelabrum or silver-plated utensil in sight. A huge live mud crab took the place of a doz stemmed roses…same cost but incomparable value!
Towser, nice one. Now I’m jelous although on the eve we had a BBQed Cray so I shouldn’t complain really.